phase2_planning

Below are the final versions of the proposals approved by USAID. Click to download.

• Africa RISING phase 2 umbrella proposal
• Africa RISING East and Southern Africa project phase 2 proposal
• Africa RISING West Africa project phase 2 proposal
• Africa RISING Ethiopian Highlands project phase 2 proposal

This phase 2 builds upon three important events:

1. 2-5 June 2015: Africa RISING Program Coordination Team retreat, Washington DC
2. 1-4 September 2015: Africa RISING phase 2 design team meeting, Wageningen University, Netherlands
3. 6-8 October 2015: Africa RISING Program Strategy Workshop, Mali

Some additional thoughts for phase 2 were covered in program coordination team meetings 10 to 12.


From the Bamako meeting, these are the outputs generated as inputs for phase 2.

• Building blocks for the phase 2 proposal
  • Sustainable intensification framework and indicators (more from the Bamako meeting about this here). This builds upon and should be integrated with previous work on SI framework and indicators
  • Phase 2 systems approach (more from the Bamako meeting about this here)
  • Phase 2 vision of success, targets and SI benefits (more from the Bamako meeting about this here). Also see this file for why we need a vision of success (and some initial presentation of ideas about the theory of change and impact pathway):
    

    Pres - Vision of success - BV.pptx
    

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  • Theory of change and impact pathways (and worked out version for Ethiopia)
  • Phase 2 scaling approaches (more from the Bamako meeting about this here)
• Approaches used in Africa RISING
  • Information about cost-benefit analysis (more from the Bamako meeting about this here)
  • Information about typology use (more from the Bamako meeting about this here)
  • Farmer engagement standards (more from the Bamako meeting about this here) - these cover partly also platform work
  • Draft plan for nutrition work for phase 2 (more from the Bamako meeting about this here)
  • Draft plan for gender work for phase 2 (more from the Bamako meeting about this here)
  • Draft plan for Monitoring & Evaluation and data management for phase 2
  • Draft plan for comms work for phase 2
• Narratives and evidence of success of phase 1

See also the timetable for next steps and milestones to follow progress.